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The rape took place on Sunday night near the Kurmitola General Hospital, just a few metres away the Airport Road, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the capital.

Pakistan had on Sunday reaffirmed its resolve not to become a part of any conflict in the region and renewed its offer for mediating in the Middle East crisis, Dawn news reported.

Four months ago, Trump called going into the Middle East “the worst decision ever made" in US history. Now, he finds himself ensnared in a Middle East crisis of his own following his decision to kill Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani.

In a Twitter message Friday, Mike Pence said that Soleimani 'assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.'

Our country's criminal justice system sets out appropriate procedures to clarify the truth of cases and is administered appropriately, while guaranteeing basic individual human rights.

Trump’s supporters have embraced his willingness to act where others would not. But his high-risk approach has sparked fear in Democrats, as well as some Republicans, who worry that the president is overly focused on short-term wins and blind to the long-...

Nawaz Sharif had left for London on November 19 in an air ambulance to seek medical treatment, a month after he was released on bail from a seven-year prison sentence for corruption.

Earlier on Saturday, Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups said air strikes near camp Taji had killed six people and critically wounded three.

Hours after the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was with him, the US embassy in Baghdad urged all its citizens to leave Iraq immediately.

Tensions in Iraq were already running high after pro-Iranian protesters laid siege the US embassy earlier this week. The region might see a further escalation of tensions following the killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Khameini.

In a harbinger of the searing conditions expected, a number of fires burnt out of control in South Australia as temperatures topped 40 degrees C (104 F) across much of the state and strong winds fanned flames.

Frias has been accused of supporting the human rights violations under the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel said that US lawmakers were left in the dark about the attack ordered by US President Donald Trump against Soleimani, who has been dubbed as the mastermind of immense violence.

The floods followed torrential rains on December 31 and into the early hours of New Year's day that inundated swathes of Jakarta and nearby towns, home to about 30 million people.

Ghosn, who hid in an instrument case before boarding a private jet, was able to enter Lebanon on a French passport.

The one that crashed Thursday morning in forested mountains outside the capital was a model dedicated to search and rescue and had been delivered in 2018, according to the defense ministry.